A Logician’s Code of Conduct

A Logician’s Code of Conduct now has an official page on the McGill-Queen’s University Press website, which means the book is finally out in the world in at least one concrete way. You can find the description, publication details, and preorder information here:

https://www.mqup.ca/Books/A/A-Logician-s-Code-of-Conduct

This book picks up where Logic in the Wild left off. It looks at how the logical habits we rely on every day can both help and harm, especially when they are used to dismiss certain ways of thinking as incoherent. Drawing on feminist, queer, and post-colonial work, I try to show how logic can be practised as a code of conduct: being open about our assumptions, negotiating standards that fit the context, and treating others as coherent reasoners even when we disagree deeply.

Like Logic in the Wild, the book is written without formal symbols and is intended for readers who are curious about logic but do not necessarily have a background in it. The aim is not to turn everyone into logicians, but to make it easier to use logical tools in ways that are fair, equitable, and responsive to the people we are actually talking with.